Content

Methodology

Geographic Coverage

Universe

The population comprises all persons with German citizenship resident in the Federal Republic of Germany who are at least 18 years old, primary live in Hamburg and who are participants of the Online-Access-Panel from Respondi AG or their partners. This group comprised nearly 3700 active Panel members in Hamburg. Recruitment was primary done online but also by phone. In order to achieve the claimed number of respondents in Hamburg, Respondi cooperated with GMI, Panelbiz, Toluna and Webfrager.

Selection Method

Sampling was based on a primary defined ratio schedule (sex, age, education).

Mode of Data Collection

Online Survey with standardized questionnaires

Data Collector

Bamberg Center for Empirical Studies (BACES)

Date of Collection

09.03.2011 - 19.03.2011

Geographic Coverage

Hamburg (DE-HH)

Universe

The population comprises all persons with German citizenship resident in the Federal Republic of Germany who are at least 18 years old, primary live in Hamburg and who are participants of the Online-Access-Panel from Respondi AG or their partners. This group comprised nearly 3700 active Panel members in Hamburg. Recruitment was primary done online but also by phone. In order to achieve the claimed number of respondents in Hamburg, Respondi cooperated with GMI, Panelbiz, Toluna and Webfrager.

Selection Method

Sampling was based on a primary defined ratio schedule (sex, age, education).

Answer categories „Jewish“, „Muslim“ and other answers of non-christian religion were summarized into answer category „other denomination“ at question A42 (“religious affiliation”). All other answers were recoded according the coding scheme “religious affiliation”. This causes that the variables A42a “frequency of church attendance, christian”, A42b “frequency of church attendance, jewish” and A42c “frequency of church attendance, muslim” were summarized into variable kirchg “frequency of church/mosque/synagogue attendance”.

2015-11-26

2015-11-26

The variable doi, containing the Digitial Object Identifier (DOI), has been added.

German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES)
The German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES) is a DFG-funded project which made its debut just prior to the 2009 federal election. GLES is the largest and most ambitious election study held so far in Germany. Although the initial mandate is to examine and analyse the electorate for three consecutive elections, the aspired goal is to integrate the project within GESIS as an institutionalized election study after the federal election of 2017, and hence to make it a permanent study.